Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4,289, Thomas Folkner, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.C.
Folkner Thomas
S 4,289
Born in N.C.
carded
CONTENTS

Number 32613
Thomas Folkner of Perry Co. in the State of Tenn. who was a Private in the Comp. y commanded by Captain Hermina of the Regt y commanded by Genl. Marlbury in the line for Revolution
10 Months
W. Line. Records at. Mar. 30 th 1832
Inscribed on the Roll of Pension at the rate of 32 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1832
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of July, 1848, and sent to Mrs. W. Barrow
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. L. Campbell Clerk Book E 2 Vol. 7 Page 63

Report
Set to Mr. Claiborne
Nov. 4th 48
at 24 Sp 49, 83p~
Nolitead,

State of Tennessee } 53 County of Perry } 53
36250
On this 23 rd day of March, 1846, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace of the County of Perry and State of Tennessee Thomas Holkner a Resident of Tennessee in the County of Perry aged one Hundred years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he volunteered in service of the United States under Capt. Equilith Sherwood and Col. Ramsey in pursuing and suppressing the Indians and Tories who were committing depredations on the inhabitants of North Carolina particular at that time on the Catawba River that he don't recollect the precise date but to the best of his recollection it was in the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Seven which he served Three Months in that service, afterwards to the best of his recollection in August one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight he substituted in the place of one Seth Bottom in Militiaman in Chatham County North Carolina and Marched under Col. Moore from Chatham County to Salisbury, from Salisbury he Marched under Lieutenant Bell to Charleston South Carolina and joined the Army under Genl. Marlbury which he served a Six Months Toward and was taken a prisoner of war and was kept in confinement Three Months longer in Charleston and was paroled by a British officer and left Charleston and returned to Anson County North Carolina. In August Seventeen hundred and Seventy Nine to the best of his memory he volunteered in Anson County North Carolina under Capt John D. Gernet under the command of Col. Wade, Col. Williams and Col. Childes, and Marched to Pettigrew Bridge and was taken a prisoner again at that place and was carried by the British to Wilmington, with his services and confinement he was seven Months from the time he volunteered in Anson County until he got released at Wilmington by being let out of the service the night before he was to be executed the next day, and returned again to Anson County four Months after his return to Anson County he volunteered again as a Minute Man in pursuit of the Tories who was ravaging, murdering and plundering the Country he was under the command of Capt Patrick Bryan Lieutenant Jarman part of the time on Little River and was at the Siege at Shoal Creek and Ash Poll besides their small

engagements not now recollected serving in all at different times at least four months at that time and then retired from service, which will appear by the proof that will be annexed, the cause of his not making earlier application for a pension has been in consequence of his not having any person to prove his services by until of late he hereby Relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Hopton J. attile of the Thomas Holker Peace for Perry County
The declaration in reply to the Interrogatories as is required by the regulations of the war department doth reply to Question 1 st that he was Borned in Cumberland County South Carolina about the year Seventeen Hundred and forty See Answer to Question 2 nd he has no record of his age Answer 3 when he first volunteered and substituted he lived in Chatham County North Carolina Since the Revolutionary war he lived Thirty years in South Carolina Twenty years in the State of Kentucky and Twenty years in the State of Tennessee and still continue to live in Perry County State of Tennessee Answer to Question 4 th he volunteered under Capt. Equles Harkness and Col. Ramsey against the Indians and Tories, and substituted in the place of one Seth Bottom and March to Charleston South Carolina under Col. Moore and Lieutenant Hall he volunteered and was under the command of Col. Wade, Col. Williamson and Col. Holder where he was taken prisoner at Battery Bridge, and volunteered under Capt. Patrick Bogan and Lieutenant Fannin after the Tories and to Question 5 he don't recollect any Continental officers of Regiments at present except Gen. Clinton at Charleston answer to Question 6 th he Received a discharge from Gen. Lincoln at Charleston and lost it while he was in confinement at Wilmington answer to Question 7 th as to his Charleston for veracity and their belief of his services in the Revolution he would Refer to Robert Creadup Thomas Lamee of Perry County and William Williams of Hickman County

in the place of both bottom and went to Charleston South Carolina and March under Col Moore also the time he volunteered and under the command of Col Wade, Col Williams and Col Childs and his confinement at Wilmington and the time he volunteered as a minute man against the Tories and was with him a great part of the time of his services and the applicant parativaly served the different towns in the different parts under the different named officers that he has stated in his declaration sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me
Ezekiel Hopkins
John Heptedler Justice of the peace for Perry County I do certify that I am well acquainted with Ezekiel Hopkins that he is a man of high standing and respectability and is a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and he refers to President James K Polk for his standing and respectability as he says he has been acquainted with him for the last twenty years
John Heptedler
State of Tennessee Perry County } J. Pleasant Whitwell Clerk of the County Court of Said County do hereby certify that John Heptedler whose name is subscribed to the declaration swithficates and affidavit is and was at the time of signing the same was an acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified and that the signatures purporting to be his is genuine I as clerk as aforesaid do hereby further certify that the said statement were on this day submitted the said court the same being a court of record and then in session for approval and the same was examined by the members of said court and approved by them unanimously Given under my hand and seal of said court at office in Harristburg this 7th day of April 1846 Pleasant Whitwell, Clerk.

We Joseph Dickerson and Larkin J. Burl residing in Perry County and State of Tennessee do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Holkner who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be one hundred years old that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Joseph Holkner Justice of the Peace Joseph Dickerson Larkin J. Burl
I do certify that I have been acquainted with Thomas Holkner for the last eighteen years that from old age and bodily infirmities he is not able and can not attend in open court that he is a man of high standing and veracity, and I do hereby declare in my opinion after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and I further certify that Joseph Dickerson and Larkin J. Burl who has signed the preceding certificate are citizens of high standing and respectability in Perry County and resides in the neighbourhood of the applicant and that they is no clergyman immediate in the neighbourhood, and the word believe and word, at that time) was interlined before the above was assigned
I am Affected Justice
State of Tennessee Perry County 3
of the Peace Perry County
on this the 23 rd day of March 1846 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace of the County of Perry and State aforesaid Mr. Ezekiel Holkner aged eighty five years doth certify that he has known Mr. Thomas Holkner who has sworn and subscribed to the within declaration from his infancy that he is knowing to the different towns he served in the Revolutionary war that he was knowing to his volunteering under Capt. Equilal Stevenson and Col. Ramey against the Indians and Tories and the time he substituted

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section REL
June 18, 1930
Mrs. Guss G. LeCompte 602 S. 5th Street Okemah, Oklahoma
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.4289, it appears that Thomas Fortner (pensioned Felkner) was born in 1746, in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
While residing in Chatham County, North Carolina, he enlisted and served as a private with the North Carolina Troops as follows:
From sometime in 1777, three months in Captain Equiler Kervener's Company, Colonel Ramsey's Regiment and was out against the Indians and Tories.
From August, 1778, six months under Lieutenant Noll, Colonel Moore's Regiment, was taken prisoner and held three months when paroled.
From August, 1779, in Captain John D. Gernet's Company, under Colonels Wade, Williams and Childes, and was again taken prisoner, length of this service seven months including time of imprisonment.
From about four months after the termination of this service, four months under Lieutenant Jarman or Jarmin and Captain Patrick Bogan and was in several skirmishes.
After the Revolution, he lived in North Carolina for thirty years and in Kentucky for twenty years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed

March 23, 1846, at which time he was a resident of Perry County, Tennessee.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
Very truly yours
Date of death not in KB
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

Ebenezer Dyer, To be attended.
Fortnight : case - Am. B. and Hon. Washington House of Representatives John M. Weymouth Washington City Dinner J. H. C.

Ezra Keolstead, To be attended to.
Fort Meade - Md
Rev. W. B. ...
Hon. Washington Barrow House of Representatives
South West Corner Washington City D. C.
D. C.
June 11/96

South Warpath Tennessee (June 6th 1848)
Hon. Washington Barrow
Dear Sir
Your favour of the 19th May came safe to hand enclosing me the form of a Declaration for Widow &c —
Enclosed I send you the letter of Mr Campbell the Pension Agent at Jackson Ten. relative to the name of Ezekiel Forkner a pensioner and brother of Thomas Forkner or Fortner — As I before stated they are both illiterate men, and in the neighbourhood where they reside they are called Fortner — There is a discrepancy at the War Department in this name — Mr Camp the acting Comm te of Pensions says Ezekiel Fortner was enrolled by the name of Falkner and now you see what the Pension Agent at Jackson says Forkner — Please shew Mr Campbells letter to Mr Edwards, and in justice to Thomas Fortner, I want him to give his case a due investigation — Please accept my best wishes for your prosperity, and receive my thanks for the many favours you have conferred on me
Your friend Ezra Holstead

South Harpeth Tennessee
April 30th 1848
Hon. Washington Barron
Dear Sir
Your letter dated the 29th March, enclosing William Walker's certificate to locate 160 acres of land came safe to hand. In the application of Thomas Fortner alias Fortner of Perry County it appears from the document you forwarded to me, from the Commission of Pensions that strong suspicions were afloat in the War Department that a fraud was wished to be practiced by said Fortner in his application for a pension. Ezekiel Fortner now a pensioner, formerly a resident of Hardin County Tenn is the brother of said Thomas Fortner, proof of which I presume is now filed in the Pension Office, and the proof of the services of said Thomas Fortner in the Revolution has been procured from the Comptroller of North Carolina and also filed in the Pension Office in some instances his name was spelled Holkner and in other entries Fortner all no doubt appertaining to the same man. The fact is that both of these brothers Ezekiel and Thomas Fortner are very illiterate men, and similar to many others in the same condition, I have no idea

That they know the correct way of spelling their names - I have just returned from the neighborhood wherein they reside, and they are unanimously called Hortner - Please call on the Commissioner of Pensions and tell him if he will look at the census of Revolutionary Pensioners taken in 1840, and returned by the several Marshals of the Judicial Districts under the Act for taking the sixth Census page 159 under the head of Hardin County Ten, Ezek. Hortner is there to be seen, and as you, and John Bell have known me for many years I wish the Commr. to understand that I never embark in any branch of business wherein dishonesty is concerned, and request that he will deal out justice where it is due
In a former letter I requested you to call on Mr. Gentry to know if he had done any thing in the case of Mrs. Byrd, and on Mr. Chase if he had made application to Congress in the case of Mrs. Prudence Beakly, if you have not named the subject to them, please have the goodness to do so, and for your strict attention to my many requests please accept my hearty thanks, and believe me
Your sincere friend Lydia Holstead

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Dear Sir:- Please send me all information given concerning Thomas Faulkner of Perry Co. Tenn. whose Pensions No. is S. 4289 - Revolutionary War - N. Carolina
Resp.
Mrs. Lucie G. Le Compte, Okemah, Okla.

DISTRICT JANUARY, MAY, SEPTEMBER FIRST MONDAY MOTION DAYS 1ST AND 3RD MONDAYS OF EACH MONTH
COUNTY JANUARY, APRIL, JULY, OCTOBER FIRST MONDAY
Clerk of the Courts
TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
A. R. TAYLOR, CLERK OKFUSKEE COUNTY
Okemah, Okla.
April 8th, 1930.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C. Gentlemen:-
Please furnish me with the Pension record of One Thomas Faulkner , soldier of the Revolution, N. Carolina, Pension S-4289.
I particularly desire the name of his wife, and children, with dates of birth, marriage and death. Any information will be greatly appreciated,
Yours truly,
Mrs. Miss Le Compte
#602 So. 5th St.
Okemah, Okla.

Rev War
4289
INVALID.
File No. 4289
Thomas Folkner Dist Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 129
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Ms. Line. Records A. Mar. 30 th 1874

1930 - June 18 - Hist. to Mrs. Marcus L. Le Compte E.S.

ms 37250
Thomas Falkner Ten.
Sol to Nathan Deake May 18th '47
Sol to H. M. L. Barrow Feb 29 '48
Sol yd June '32

37250
Thomas Folkner
Gen:
Act. J. June 32
adm 10 mo per
$33 33 per m
pm 4 March 1831
Hon Washington Barron House of Reps
by Clerk

May 21/48
Respecty. claim of Thomas Holton or John
FREE
1444
W. James I. Edwards Commr. of Pensions Washington City D. C.

May 21/48
Respg. claim of Thomas Folkmor or Fortune
FREE
James L. Edwards Manager of Pensions Washington City D.C.
(miss) 26

Nashville Tennessee April 26 th - 1848 Sir
your copy of May 18 th 1847. which you have recently sent to the Hon ble Washington Barrow an apply to Nathan Leek in the case of Thomas Holkner or Hartner is now before me Sir you seem to think from the tenor of your letter that the features of that claim presents a strong case of a contemptible fraud which requires some investigation on the part of the department Sir I think it may right for a United States officer to be concerned as I have but little doubt that they has been grand frauds practised on the department but Sir I hope I can remove all grounds to your satisfaction that the case in consideration is not a forged business. Sir I drew the declaration of Thomas Holkner or Hartner of Perry County Tennessee in the Spring of the year 1846. He was very old as it is stated in his declaration and like a great many of the old Revolutionary Sol- -diers illiterate and can't write their own Names. I not being particular heard the sound Holkner & placed his name that way in his declaration and he Author- ized it to be set to his declaration in

my friends Holman which declaration was sent by Mr Ezra Holman of South Harpeth Tennessee to Nathan Leeke of Washington City to present to your consideration Mr Leeke it appears in addition to the affidavit of Ezekiel Holman or Horton obtained a certificate from the congregation of North Carolina proving his services nearly specified in his declaration it appears from the congregation that his name was Horton which Mr Leeke wrote to know if his name was not commonly called Horton which he obtained several affidavits to that a recent John Wolfston the justice of the Peace gave his affidavit that it was as known in his name to his declaration and besides several of his long acquaintances and when the census of the old Revolutionary Soldiers was taken in 1840 Ez. Holman of Harden County Tennessee his name was spelled Horton which I will refer you to in the Book Published giving all the names & residences of the old Revolu- -tionary Soldiers, I also Mr Edward done the writing for Mr Ez. Holman Horton & wrote the petition for him to Mr L. Murray for a new certificate

Wm Edwards I do not want you to do any thing in your official capacity but what you think really is right since have been Borned and Raised in Davidson County Near Nashville I have your friends acquaintance Thomas Blairborne Esq has known me for the last twenty years which he will write to you concerning the same The Hon Washington Babcock is well acquainted with me for many years The Hon John Bell since can give you full satisfaction as to reports my character. Daniel Graham Secretary of the Treasury has known me ever since I was a boy The Hon Caleb Johnson knows me well by
character also President James K Polk knows me since I want you to inquire of all the above distinguished men whether I would furnished papers to send to the War Department for any lionated consideration watered, please send when you receive the & make the inquiries to your satisfaction write to me to Nashville I suppose what is more need of any and I will be your O btd Servt.
Jubal Richardson
James L. Edwards Esq Honors of Persons.

May 4 1847
Dear to me Miss Fickner
Yours J. J. Edward born of Newbury Present

May 4 1847
Charles Fickner
Dear Sir, I am Yours Very Respectfully, J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Present.

Washington May 3 d 1847
Sir
I enclose herewith additional evidence in the case of Thomas Folkner or Fortner of Tennessee an applicant for a pension under the act of 7 June 1832, some objections to the admission of his claim on the ground that his name was spelled Folkner in his declaration, & the proof of service was in the name of Fortner, the affidavit of Isaiah Baty, & Ezekiel Fortner, a brother of the applicant & himself a pensioner will I doubt not remove the objections in his case, & justify the admission of his claim. The certificate of the Compt. of A.C. is also enclosed showing the receipt of more than £40. for service in the A.L. troops. Your early examination of this case will greatly oblige,
Very Respectfully,
Your Aff. Servant Nathan Sealy
As the original claim was filed by me about a year since A.L.
Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Present

37250 May 11. 1896.
be - Original Thos. Folsom July 1892
Let this guide the files until further endorse is recd
Gen. John Strong Chief of Staff Adjutant General

Washington May 8 th 1846
Sir
I enclose herewith the declaration of Thomas Folkner of Tenn; an applicant for a pension under the act of 7 th June 1832 with such proof as is yet obtained of his services in the A.C. troops, during the war of the revolution, I have sent to the Comptroller of A.C. for record proof of his services & if found there I presume it will be filed in time to examine with the papers now presented
I am Very Respectfully Your Ob t Servant Nathan Lake
Hon J. L. Edwards Present

Raleigh N.C.
Comptroller's Office
I William H. Collins Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the name of Thomas Falkner appears of Record in this office as having had issued the following Special Certificates in his name for Military Service, viz One for Three Pounds Ten Shillings (£3.10) see Book H. 62 page 29 Also another in the name of Thomas Fortner for Sixteen Pounds Eight Shillings and Six pence (£16.8.6) see Book A. M No 15 page 40. Also another in same name for Thirteen Pounds Thirteen Shillings (£13.13) see Book No 9 page 30 — given under my hand and seal this 27 day June A.D. 1846
Wm H Collins Compt.

State of Tennessee
Perry County
on this the 3 rd day of April 1847 personally appeared before me a justice of the peace of the county of Perry and State of Tennessee Isaac Bates aged fifty years doth certify that he has been acquainted with Thomas Houtner who as he understands has made a deposition for a perjury under the acts of Congress the 3 rd June 1832 for nearly forty years and that he never heard or known the said Houtner called by any other name than Thomas Houtner sworn to and subscribed the day and year both within John Hupstede J.P. for Perry County
I do certify that I am well acquainted with Isaac Bates that he is a man of high standing and respectability
John Hupstede J.P. for Perry County
State of Tennessee
Perry County 3 rd
on this the 3 rd day of April 1847 personally appeared before me a justice of the peace of the county of Perry and State of Tennessee Emory B. Lawrence aged twenty eight years doth certify that he has been acquainted with Thomas Houtner

who has made a declaration for a pension about Twelve Months since for Ten years that the said Thomas Horton and all the family was known by no other name than Horton I sworn to and subscribed the day and year both within written before me Druce B. Caveness John H. Fletcher & P. Penney County.
I do certify that I am well acquainted with Druce B. Caveness that he is a man of truth and veracity John H. Fletcher & P. Penney County.
State of Tennessee Penney County }
on this the 34 day of April 1847 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace of the County of Penney and State of Tennessee Galtant Pinnix aged Seventy Eight years doth that he has known Thomas Horton who has made a declaration for a pension about Twelve Months since for the last Twenty four years that he ever known him and called by no other name than Thomas Horton I sworn to and subscribed the day and year both within written before me John H. Fletcher & P. Penney County Galtant Pinnix
I do certify that I have been acquainted with Galtant Pinnix for the last Twenty years that he is a man of truth and veracity John H. Fletcher & P. Penney County.

State of Tennessee Perry County
on this the 3 rd day of April 1847 personally appeared before me a justice of the peace of the County of Perry and State of Tennessee Ezekiel Fontner aged eighty six years doth certify that he is a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and that he is a Brother of Thomas Fontner who made a declaration for a pension under the act of Congress June 7 th 1832 about Twelve Months since that he was with his Brother Thomas Fontner a great portion of the time he served in the Revolutionary war which he has heretofore given his affidavit to the declaration of Thomas Fontner of Perry County Tennessee that the said Thomas Fontner was during the revolutionary war and even since was called by every person and was only known of Thomas Fontner and his name which is signed to his declaration filed in the pension office at Washington City which at present he draws his semiannually $100.00 is signed Ezekiel Fontner and that the name Fontner was an error in drawing the declaration of Thomas Fontner Sworn to and subscribed the day and year both within written before me John Hupfeld - J. G. (or perylang) Clerk
I do certify that I have been acquainted with Ezekiel Fontner for the last ten years that he is a man of high standing and respecta- bility and that the words by the name John Hupfeld was intended before the above was signed J. G. (or perylang) Clerk

I do certify that I have been acquainted with Thomas Hartnall who has heretofore has sworn and subscribed to a declaration for a pension for the last twenty years that the said Thomas Hartnall always went by the name Hartnall and not Hartnall which was an an error in drawing his declaration before me John H. Fletcher J.P. Youngstown
State of Tennessee } ss Perry County }
I Pleasant Whitwell Clerk of the County Court of Perry County Court and state of Tennessee do certify that John H. Fletcher is and was an acting Justice of the peace at the time he affixed the above certificate affidavit and certify all duly elected and qualified as the law directs and all his official acts as such is and ought to be entitled to full faith and credit and that the signature purporting to be his are genuine in testimony whereof I set my hand and affix the Seal of office at Harrisburg this 5 th day of April 1847 P. Whitwell Clerk